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Originally Posted by Rich@GTBPerformance
It will feel like similar performance. If you've driven a Turbo 4 versus a NA inline six, you'll know that the feeling the turbo gives you is deceptive and can make it feel faster than it actually is.
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I actually drive a turbo four fairly regularly and find the seat-of-the-pants feel jibes pretty closely to what I would expect based on the quoted figures. It has lots of torque for its displacement, yes, but it nevertheless is (and feels) like a pretty slow car overall. Of course, it isn't supposed to be a fast car so I don't have any issue with it in that respect. And I realize an E90 328i isn't really a fast car either. But I know for a fact, from driving them on a number of occasions and from simply reading about experiences from owners here and elsewhere, that they are (and do feel, as well) much faster than a high 7 second 0-100 acceleration time.
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I don't think what they are stating is too far off base.
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Relatively speaking, sure.
But for that matter, you could say that, relatively speaking an F30 328i is almost as fast as an F30 335i. Or, I could say an E92 M3 performs just about like an F10 M5. Or plenty of other loosy-goosy comparisons of cars that are within 10-25% of each other's performance.
For people who buy a 320i, it probably doesn't really matter in most cases anyway. But the way BMW described the car certainly stuck out to me as taking some very liberal artistic license. I am very confident that when the magazines get ahold of this car, they are not going to be suggesting it can keep pace with an E90 328i. Although I will say that I figure it can probably keep up with (or close to) the outgoing Canadian E90 323i, which in the end is all it really needs to do.